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My new male, sold to me as rainwater albino, not sure if he is rain water or what, any info would be great and any comments.

WOW thats an awsone gecko u got right there. and im pritty sure its a rainwater.

the only way you could know for sure what strain of albino he is would be to breed him to females of each different strain, and see which babies were albinos. though there are tendencies with each strain, with the passage of time, as breeders of the strains go in all sorts of different directions, these differences are lessening. you can't tell the difference just visually.
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marla
currently: 0.0.9 catfish, 0.1 ferrets, 2.8.2 leopard geckoes, 0.0.15 oriental fire-bellied toads, and 0.2.0 sugar gliders

Finally! I agree with you. It is getting hard to tell the strains apart visually. I've seen dark Tremper albinos that look just like Bells. And Rainwaters and Light Trempers that look the same. That is a nice male gecko, my male looks similar. But who knows he could be Rainwater or Tremper.
Just my two cents.

1.0 Albino Leo
0.1 Normal Leo
0.1 Patternless Leo
0.1 Albino Leo
0.1 Cat

Honestly, yes that's true.. but there are a number of usual differences between the strains.. though my experience with Bells are... well 0, it's likely we're not dealing with one.

Currently keeping a Tremper and a Rainwater Albino.. and having looked at multiple pics...
I can say it's probably a tremper, it's got too much brown coloration which some rainwaters either lack from birth or shed off as they grow, others will retain light light brown, only useful for seeing their pattern really..
while Trempers usually have the pigment in abundance, though Ron Tremper himself says that he has seen clutches of trempers that rival rainwaters in their light colors and lack of brown..
I've never heard of a rainwater with dark brown.. though supposedly I'm sure if you followed the opposite of Ron's belief that Hot temps in incubation produce lighter colors and went with low temps and produced a female, the result may as well be darker.
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In any case, it matters not unless you wanted to breed an rainwater albino male to a patternless and hope to produce patternless albinos.. Tremper Pat- are possible.. but Rainwater seems to combine much more readily showing up 1/16 in offspring
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Good luck with your Leo!
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2.4.1 Leos
1.1.13(eggs) Beardie
1.0 Burm
0.1 Common Boa
1.0 Bp (Turns out, it's a 2nd burmese)